Appeal No. 2002-0974
Application 09/332,745
THE REFERENCES
The references of record which are being relied on by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Miyashita et al. 5,271,796 December 21, 1993
Nakagawa et al. 5,445,491 August 29, 1995
Loncki et al. 5,860,848 January 19, 1999
Park et al. 5,944,889 August 31, 1999
Japanese Patent Application No. 8-24796, Asayama et al., January
17, 19962
Japanese Published Application No. 2-243594, Inoue et al.,
September 27, 19903
THE REJECTIONS
In his answer, the examiner has withdrawn his rejection of
claim 6 as failing to comply with 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph.
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable because the subject matter therein claimed
would have been obvious from the combined disclosures of Asayama
et al. considered with Inoue et al. and Nakagawa et al. Claims 9
through 38 stand rejected as being unpatentable under 35 § 103
2 Appellants filed two English translations of this
reference, one of which was prepared by Derwent Information, Ltd.
The examiner has relied on the "non-Derwent" translation and,
accordingly, we shall also rely on the "non-Derwent" translation.
The translations are, substantially, the same.
3 All reference to Inoue et al. is a reference to the
English translation obtained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office (PTO).
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